As expected, when Gekko Chizan informed the four kids of the news that Kumogakure had already begun taking action.
The reactions of the four were completely different.
Obito:
"Oh yeah! Finally I can have a good fight!"
Kakashi:
"Got it. Doesn't matter how many come."
Shisui:
"Sensei, I'll be careful."
Rin:
"Okay, I understand. But, um… Sensei, if they come, can I rob them?"
Good grief—when Rin shyly said that she wanted to rob those Kumogakure shinobi, Gekko Chizan felt like he saw his past self robbing people back in the day reflected in her.
All of them looked harmless on the surface, yet hid a heart that took pleasure in this kind of thing.
No matter how he thought about it, he never would have imagined that the usually quiet and unremarkable Nohara Rin would awaken this kind of trait—developing a liking for the thrill of robbery.
At this point, what could he even say?
He could only leave behind a single sentence—"Use your judgment"—and then disappear from the spot.
"tsk tsk, Chizan, did you see that?"
"Your disciple is inheriting your essence one after another."
"Hahahahaha, a little girl actually liking robbery—if people found out, where would you, the teacher, put yourself?"
After he left, Chōmei's mocking voice followed immediately.
Gekko Chizan could only feel helpless about it. After all, he hadn't expected Nohara Rin to awaken such a strange attribute either.
If anyone should be robbing people, it should've been Obito—after all, that guy loved gambling, and when he ran out of money, wouldn't robbing be the natural next step?
Yet in the end, it was Rin—the one who'd always served as a medical ninja—who turned into a bandit. Sigh, the world is truly unpredictable.
Returning once more to the surveillance post, under his watchful eye, Kumogakure had dispatched a total of ten squads, all in three-man teams.
Mobilizing so many squads at once for reconnaissance showed just how anxious the upper ranks of Kumogakure were.
Thinking about it, that made sense—when your own village is about to run out of food, how could you not be anxious?
Each of the four roads leading out of the village had two squads assigned, with another two squads heading straight for the coastal cities.
"Hehehehe, Kumogakure still doesn't know just how big a net I've woven for them."
"Chizan, are you sure your disciples can handle all of them?"
"Absolutely. As long as they don't send out thirty jōnin, the kids won't have any problems. Even if they do send thirty jōnin, with Jinlin and the others there, it still won't be an issue."
Gekko Chizan was very clear about the combat strength of the four kids.
Even Nohara Rin wouldn't fail. Right now, he was directly above the area where she was stationed.
The two sides had already encountered each other.
This time, Nohara Rin only used three clones. Counting the original, four of them directly blocked two squads.
The battle was about to erupt.
"Just like Raikage-sama and the others said—there really are bandits outside the village!"
"Four people? Kill them and go back to claim the credit!"
The six Kumogakure shinobi had absolutely no sense of how serious the situation was. They genuinely believed the bandits in front of them were just ordinary thieves.
They charged in all at once.
Nohara Rin's lips curved slightly upward. She clenched her fists and shouted sharply:
"This tree was planted by me! This road was opened by me!"
"If you want to pass through here! Leave behind your life-buying money!"
After shouting the slogan, she pushed off the ground hard, her entire body shooting forward like a rocket.
Up in the sky, Gekko Chizan heard that familiar, rhyming slogan and immediately spat out a mouthful.
"cough cough cough..."
"Where did she even learn that stuff?!"
"Hahahahaha, Chizan, your disciple is pretty interesting. That way of using chakra reminds me of someone."
Like Gekko Chizan, Chōmei was also watching the battle below through insect vision.
At this moment, Nohara Rin had already engaged the enemy. She raised her right fist and smashed it down violently onto the ground.
That punch, containing dense chakra, directly shattered the earth.
It wasn't just Chōmei who found it familiar—Gekko Chizan did too. Wasn't this damn thing Tsunade's monstrous strength?
This kid even learned that?
Monstrous strength is an ability that enhances taijutsu destructive power through precise chakra control.
It isn't a specific ninjutsu or taijutsu, but rather a method based on meticulous chakra manipulation. To unleash that terrifying power, one must concentrate chakra with extreme precision inside the body, then release it in a single explosive burst during combat, gaining overwhelming strength.
"Boom!"
As Nohara Rin's fist came down, the battlefield was instantly engulfed in dust and smoke.
"Fire Release!"
"Water Release, Water Senbon!"
The next second, the smoke was ignited. A massive fire tornado rose from the ground, trapping the six shinobi inside.
At the same time, countless senbon began precise strikes.
Fire and water intertwined. The moment Nohara Rin made her move, the battle was pushed straight into a white-hot state.
"Damn it! These aren't ordinary bandits!"
"Saku, defend! Everyone else, counterattack!"
"Water Release, Water Formation Wall!"
"Explosive tags!"
The sudden change made the six shinobi realize that their opponents weren't ordinary bandits at all, but shinobi just like them.
No—not the same. Their opponents were clearly stronger.
"Aiya, aiya, stop resisting already. Wouldn't it be better to just hand over the money obediently?"
"Take my punch!"
Seeing the shinobi being so uncooperative, a mischievous grin appeared on Nohara Rin's face. Robbery was supposed to be like this—when people resisted, you had to hit them hard! Make them obediently hand over the money!
A fist imbued with monstrous strength appeared in front of one shinobi in an instant.
"Boom!"
With a single punch, one shinobi was sent flying straight into unconsciousness. That was already with her holding back—if that monstrous-strength punch had landed on his head, it probably would've killed him on the spot.
"My god, what kind of strength is that?!"
Watching their companion get blasted away by a single punch, the Kumogakure shinobi all felt terrible.
After all, to send someone flying like that—how much strength did it take? This wasn't a power they hadn't seen before. It was precisely because they had seen it that they felt fear.
Because that was the kind of strength only Kumogakure's top figures possessed.
"You bandits—are you trying to start a war with Kumogakure?"
The might of that single punch completely crushed their will to resist.
Seeing the others retreat, Nohara Rin smiled slightly. She knew that punch had already achieved its deterrent effect.
Over the past few days, she had already analyzed all the psychological patterns of robbers.
Take money, not lives. After all, how much is a person worth? Robbing money is far more straightforward.
"Hand over all the money and items you're carrying, and you can get lost."
"Fine, we'll hand them over!"
The remaining five Kumogakure shinobi looked displeased, but constrained by the opponent's strength, they could only swallow their frustration.
After Nohara Rin collected all their money and items, she waved her hand in satisfaction.
Seeing this, the group immediately let out a sigh of relief and was just about to leave when Nohara Rin called out to them again. Such familiar faces.
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